>>9619975 (pb)
Hi,
Fire fighter anon here.
That photo shows a structure that has been burnt in a completely normal forest fire.
There is nothing suspicious about it, whatsoever.
The fire has traveled through the under-story vegetation. I've circled areas in blue where you can see ash and burn marks on the ground.
That indicates maximum flame heights of around 10 feet.
The canopy is left largely intact and remains green.
I've circled areas in orange where you can see the fire has been more intense and managed to scorch some of the leaves in the canopy. This may have been a result of differing fuel loads or a change in topography which allowed to fire to grow bigger.
Fuels in the forest are arranged in a sort of ladder…
This fire was sustained by leaves, dry grass and sticks that were less that about 1/4 of an inch thick and mostly in contact with the ground. We call these 'near surface fuels.'
Conditions need to be pretty extreme to for a fire to climb 30 feet up 'the ladder' into the tops of the trees and burn the canopy.
No doubt, there are exotic weapons that can ignite fires remotely…The Navy have amazingly powerful anti-missile lasers on ships now. But there is no evidence of anything like that being used in that pic.
It's much cheaper (and more likely) that these fires were set by a van full of MOS agents that threw a few matches around on a hot day.
Same result.